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Finally, Buchwald sold perhaps the most over-priced Harvard-Yale football tickets in history. Pitting Harvardians against Yalies for four choice seats at next year's The Game and a tailgate lunch, he drove the closing bid to $600. The Yalies took the prize.
The first act's jokes and jibes build to a peak full of sexual and cultural references and effectively contrast the modern, sterile WASP society with the lively traditional Italian, by pitting the soft-spoken and slender Aggy against the raucous and obese Francine.
Your article "Pitting Brother Against Brother," about the strike at the Phelps Dodge copper mine in Morenci, Ariz. [Oct. 3], makes me sad. It is pathetic to think that someone earning $26,000 a year would go on strike against a company that has been generous but is now in...
"Kevin White probable would like to see MelKing in the final election," says Flynn. "[White] has been very effective in pitting neighborhoods and people against each other for his political advantage. Something like that would be catastrophic."
In Washington, Pentagon officials said that Big Pine was merely a continuation of U.S.-Honduran military exercises that have taken place annually since 1965. True enough, but the scale of this year's effort was vastly grander than that of war games of the past. Last year only 30...